Random Famous Crime Scenes and What They Look Like Today (10 items)

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  (#1) JonBenét Ramsey's Basement Is Now A Playroom

  On December 26, 1996, 6-year-old child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her Boulder, CO, home in what remains one of the most famous unsolved mysteries to date. Two years after their daughter's highly publicized passing, the Ramseys (who were exonerated in 2008) sold the 11,000-square-foot home to an investor for $650,000.

  In 2004, Carol Schuller Milner, daughter of famed televangelist Robert Schuller, and her husband Tim bought the Ramsey home for $1 million. They completely remodeled the inside - including gutting the basement where JonBenét's was found - and turned the area into a family room for their five kids. They have periodically put the home back on the market, and in 2014, listed the property for $1.98 million. 
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  (#2) Sharon Tate's House Is Now Owned By The Creator of 'Full House'

  The Tate house has a history almost as strange as the offenses committed there. On August 9, 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were killed by the Manson family in her rented Benedict Canyon home located at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, CA. The house's owner, Rudolph Altobelli, a music and film talent manager, moved in three weeks after the offenses and lived there for 20 years. 

  In 1992, musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails rented the house and set up a recording studio for NIN's album The Downward Spiral. In 1994, the owner demolished the original house and built a new home called Villa Bella, with a new street address: 10066 Cielo Drive. Then Hollywood producer Jeff Franklin purchased the house; Franklin is best known as the creator of Full House.
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  (#3) Jeffrey Dahmer's Apartment Of Horrors Is Now A Vacant Lot

  On July 22, 1991, police arrested the now-infamous Jeffrey Dahmer. When they finally searched his Milwaukee apartment - after being flagged down by one of his escaped victims - they found the remains of 11 inside, including acid-soaked torsos, boxes of bones, and a fridge packed with three human heads. Dahmer later confessed to slaying 17 people in his North Side residence.

  On November 17, 1992, at the behest of his victims' families, workers demolished the 49-unit Oxford Apartments complex on North 25th Street, which has been a vacant lot ever since.
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  (#4) Dr. H.H. Holmes's Chicago Hotel Is Now a US Post Office

  H.H. Holmes frequently claims the title of "America's first serial killer," and with good reason. After moving to Chicago in the late 1880s, Holmes built what became known as his "Murder Castle" at 63rd and Wallace streets. There, he invited guests to spend the night, mostly young women touring the "White City" for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Many of the women mysteriously went missing shortly after their stays.

  When police investigated Holmes's hotel, they discovered a nightmarish labyrinthine. Two weeks later, a man named A.M. Clark purchased the building with the intent to turn Holmes's hotel into a tourist attraction; however, the building caught fire and burned to the ground. The first floor was salvaged and turned into a sign shop and bookstore before changing hands again in 1938 - when it was demolished to make way for the US Post Office that stands there today.
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  (#5) Lizzie Borden's Parents' House Is Now A Bed & Breakfast

  In 1892, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found hatcheted in their home. While Lizzie was eventually acquitted, her name remains synonymous with the grizzly act. True crime enthusiasts can spend the night in the same rooms where her parents were slain at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum in Fall River, MA.

  In 1996, one Borden aficionado even chose to be married at the site.
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  (#6) The Site Of The Black Dahlia Is Now Someone's Front Lawn

  On the morning of January 15, 1947, a passer-by discovered the naked and mutilated body of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short. The discovery took place in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, CA. "The Black Dahlia" remains one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles history.

  At 3825 South Norton Avenue, instead of the gruesome scene, passers-by will now find the well-kept front yard of a beige house.
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  (#7) The O.J. Simpson Scene Is Now An Almost $2 Million Home

  On the morning of June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ron Goldman were found stabbed in the courtyard of her home in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood. Her ex-husband, retired football player and actor O.J. Simpson, was arrested and tried but found not guilty in the "trial of the century." He was later found liable in a civil suit.

  The 3,700-square-foot, four-bedroom Brentwood condo sat empty for two years before being sold for $590,000. The new owner extensively remodeled the home and changed the address to 879 S. Bundy Drive. The home changed hands again in 2006, this time being sold for the price of $1.7 million.
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  (#8) John Wayne Gacy's Crawl Space Is Now A Quaint Suburban Home

  In December 1979, police began excavation on the home of real-life "killer clown" John Wayne Gacy. The search into his nondescript ranch-style home - located at 8213 W. Summerdale Ave. in Chicago, IL - turned up the remains of 29 young men, most of them hidden in Gacy's crawl space. Police would later find four more of Gacy's victims dumped in Illinois rivers. 

  The Gacy home was demolished as police scoured for evidence of more victims. The lot sat vacant until 1988 when a new 2,300-square-foot, three-bedroom home was built under a new address.
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  (#9) The Amityville Horror House Is Constantly For Sale And Possibly Cursed

  In November 1974, Ronald and Louise DeFeo, along with four of their five children, were found shot and killed inside their Dutch Colonial home in Amityville, NY. Their only surviving son, Ronald DeFeo Jr., was eventually tried and convicted. About a year after the tragedy, George and Kathleen Lutz moved into the home, only to flee less than a month later, citing alleged paranormal events - which later inspired the bestselling book by Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror, as well as many film adaptations.

  Since then, the 3,000-square-foot, five-bedroom house located at what's now 108 Ocean Avenue has been periodically bought and sold. The infamous Amityville home was put on the market in June 2016 for $850,000.
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  (#10) The Site Of The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Is Now A Juvenile Rehab Center

  On March 1, 1932, the baby of beloved American aviator Charles Lindbergh went missing from his home in Hopewell, NJ. The police determined that the assailant, Richard Bruno Hauptmann, snatched Charles Jr. from his nursery through a second-story window, leaving behind a ladder and a ransom note. Despite the ransom payment, little Charlie's body was discovered 72 days later. 

  The kidnapping became the "crime of the century" with unprecedented news coverage that swept the nation. Charles and his wife Anne then deeded their home, High Fields, to the state of New Jersey; it now serves as the Albert Elias Residential Group Center, a state residential facility for delinquent boys.

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